Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality

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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction - Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva Part I: Interviews 2. Observing Ourselves among Others, Interview with Meena Alexander - Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva 3. Pedagogical Alternatives: Issues in Studies, Interview with Gauri Viswanathan - Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva 4. Transnationality and Multiculturalist Ideology, Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva Part II: Commentaries 5. African-Americans and the New Immigrants - Amritjit Singh 6. Life at the Margins: In the Thick of Multiplicity - M.G. Vassanji 7. Mullahs, Sex, and Bureaucrats: Pakistan's Confrontations with the Modern World - Sohail Inayatullah 8. Coming to Terms with the Postcolonial - Deepika Bahri Part III: Studies in the Media and Popular Culture 9. An Explosion of Difference: The Margins of Perception in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid - Ranita Chatterjee 10. Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala - Binita Mehta 11. From Ritual Drama to National Prime Time: Mahabharata, India's Televisual Obsession - Sanjoy Majumder 12. Television, Politics, and the Epic Heroine: Case Study, Sita - Mahasveta Barua Part IV: Literary Criticism 13. Replacing the Colonial Gaze: Gender as Strategy in Salman Rushdie's Fiction - Sukeshi Kamra 14. Style Is (Not) the Woman: Sara Suleri's Meatless Days - Samir Dayal 15. Redefining the Female Self: Women in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day - Pushpa Naidu Parekh 16. Luminous Brahmin Children Must Be Saved: Imperialist Ideologies, Postcolonial Histories in Bharati Mukherjee's The Tiger's Daughter - Indrani Mitra 17. The Troubled Past: Literature of Severing the Viewer/Viewed Dialectic - Huma Ibrahim Part V: Experimental Critiques 18. Jane Austin in Meerut, India - Amitava Kumar 19. Border Crossings: Retrieval and Erasure of the Self as Other - Shantanu DuttaAhmed 20. I see the Glass as Half Full - Uma Parameswaran About the Contributors